Thanksgiving is going to be my favorite day of 2025. Not just because of the holiday, the football and the food, but because of what the Kansas City Chiefs will be wearing when they take on the Dallas Cowboys – their best uniforms of all time.
And almost just as crucially, the Chiefs won’t be dressed in something I hope they never wear again.
The Chiefs announced on Tuesday that they’ll be wearing white-on-white on Thursday afternoon – white jerseys with white pants.
Cold front coming to Dallas 🥶 pic.twitter.com/8heKvhh1aL
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) November 26, 2025
Apparently it was Lamar Hunt’s favorite look for the Chiefs, and it’s my favorite as well. They’re clean, they’re classy, and the white really makes the red on Kansas City’s helmet and numbers pop.
And oddly, the white uniforms look even better when they actually get dirty. Football is a tough, physical game and there’s something satisfying about seeing players with mud on their jersey. It shows they got stuck in. I like that.
The all-whites are a throwback to the road uniforms the Chiefs wore during their first years back in the 1960s. Recently, the Chiefs have busted out the white-on-white look big games on big stages – which is exactly what Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas is.
I’m glad the Chiefs will be wearing these on Thursday partly because they’re awesome, but also because it means the Kansas City resisted the temptation to wear my least favorite Chiefs uniform of all time – the Dallas Texans throwbacks.
Say no to Texas
The Chiefs were founded as the Dallas Texans in 1959, and fittingly, their original helmet featured the state of Texas on the side with a gold star marking Dallas’s location on the map.
It’s a design that made perfect sense at the time, and of course, it made perfect sense for the Chiefs to ditch that design when they moved interstate to Kansas City, for obvious reasons.
Since the move in 1963, the Chiefs have worn the original Texas helmet design on only two occasions, during the 2009 season. The Chiefs wore the old-school helmets – once at home against the Cowboys and once on the road – to mark the 50th season for the original AFL teams.
Personally, I hope they never wear them again.
Rudy Niswanger
The Kansas City Chiefs wore their Dallas Texans throwbacks twice in 2009 – once against the Dallas Cowboys and on the road against the Oakland Raiders. | Jamie Squire/GettyImages
To me, I just think it’s wrong to have a totally different state as part of your uniform, even if it is just for a one-off game.
History is important and the team will always have ties to its original Texas roots. But the Dallas Texans are no more and now the Chiefs are the Chiefs. It should stay that way.
Other NFL teams wear throwbacks, but very few wear uniforms from different cities or states that they used to play in. And even for those who do – like the Tennessee Titans with their Houston Oilers jerseys – there isn’t anything that has geographical location included in the design.
In 2023, star Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones said he was against KC bringing back the Texans helmet.
Please dont
— Chris Jones (@StoneColdJones) April 13, 2023
It would have been logical for the Chiefs to wear the old-school helmet for a road game back in their original home town, but it also would have been extremely weird, and I’m glad they decided against it.
Best of both worlds?
The Chiefs are famous for keeping their uniforms almost exactly the same throughout their entire history.
Apart from the helmet design change in 1963, the jerseys, colours and logo have all remained essentially the same for more than 60 years.
Astonishingly, the Kansas City Chiefs have never worn an alternate uniform in a game. Not once. It’s cool to be traditional, but I’d also love to see the Chiefs wear something new, even if it was just for one game a year.
So, what about taking something old and turning it into something new? What if the Chiefs took inspiration from their first-ever helmet and made something new tied to Kansas City?
What if, instead of a picture of Texas and a star over Dallas, the Chiefs used a picture of Missouri with a star to mark Kansas City on the map?
Dubya Design created a concept of exactly that a few years ago, and it looks awesome.
KC @Chiefs mixtape uniform.
Essentially a Dallas Texans throwback, the Chiefs have barely changed their uniforms over the last 60 years other than adding a stripe and number outlines. #chiefs #nfl #football #chiefskingdom #superbowl #patrickmahomes #kansascity #sports pic.twitter.com/kCdPRLE8en
— Dubya Design (@DubyaGFX) March 31, 2022
How cool would it be to see the Chiefs wear that helmet? It would be the perfect way to honor the team’s heritage and tradition while creating something new at the same time.
Another option would be to have both Kansas and Missouri on the helmet – one map on each side, both with the yellow star representing KC.
It’s not a totally outlandish or unprecedented idea. The Steelers have two different designs on opposite sides of their helmet, and the Chiefs themselves already have two different logos on their helmet too.
You might not have noticed, but the ‘KC’ in the arrowhead are flipped on each side so that the letters are reading in the right direction while the arrowhead is pointing forward. On one side, the ‘K’ is closest to the point. On the other, the ‘C’ is.
Travis Kelce, Rashee Rice
The 'KC' letters are in a different spot inside the arrowhead on Kansas City's helmet, making the Chiefs one of just two teams in the NFL to have a different logo on each side of their helmets. | Justin Edmonds/GettyImages
So, if the design is already different on opposite sides anyway, why not lean into it and represent both Missouri and Kansas too? I think it would be perfect.
The white-on-white uniforms are still my favourite for now, but an old-school/new-school helmet combo skyrocket to number one in my books.